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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 21:17:03 JST Aral Balkan

   You want ethical alternatives? Let’s build a campus where folks can work on them without worrying about how to exist day-to-day (or fund their early-stage development like VC does surveillance capitalism).

   The extent of what public funding is doing today is “Oh, looks like you‘ve got some alternative functional, let’s pay you to add Feature X or Y to it.”

   Better than nothing?

   Sure.

   Best we can do?

   Not by a longshot.

   https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

   #EU #tech #alternatives #notForProfit #commonGood

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 21:46:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧)

     @serapath Yeah, I remember the one that we were part of too. I’m done with that crap.

   • 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧) (serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 21:46:14 JST 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇬🇧)

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     @aral

     The European Union is making fun of programmers who want to build the "Next Generation Internet".

     We applied 3 times already and never got anywhere.
     Others applied too and got rejected.
     Some get it, but they get peanuts for never ending paper works and delays.

     The entire NGI has like 8 Million for all projects over the entire program duration to build the NGI.

     That is what "keet/hypercore" has alone for just hypercore (10 Million).
     Also that's a drop compared to blockchains.